Daily Reading List – July 22, 2024 (#360)

I was called for jury duty today, which meant I waited in a room with a couple hundred folks to see if I was needed for a trial. Alas, I wasn’t chosen. But I was able to do some reading while I waited!

[blog] How to build user authentication into your gen AI app-accessing database. Your AI app augments it’s LLM input with info from a database? Cool. How do you control access and avoid giving sensitive data to the wrong person? This post offers up an access pattern.

[blog] HTMX or React: What Should You Choose? If you’re getting lukewarm on frontend frameworks, you might like the the built-in dynamism of HTMX.

[article] Hands On. I often wonder when I stop going on “hands on” with tech, and I think the answer is “never.” I find it rewarding to roll up my sleeves and use whatever I talk about.

[blog] Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty. Somewhat related to the above piece. It’s about going deep by studying, talking to others, and getting personally involved in the work.

[blog] Modern SecOps Masterclass: Now Available on Coursera. Legit-looking course that spans six weeks and is platform-agnostic.

[article] Survey Surfaces Troubling Signs of Software Supply Chain Insecurity. As often seems to be the case, execs are out of sync with what practitioners say is really happening within the org.

[blog] Control LLM costs with context caching. Here’s a nice little example of the power of context caching for LLMs like Gemini that take in a long context.

[article] State of Developer Experience 2024, This offers a deeper dive into some of the data I shared last week. See what developers care about.

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